Lebanon foreign minister visits Damascus today

Lebanese foreign minister Mahmoud Hamoud said in a statement in Beirut on Friday that he will visit Damascus today at the invitation of the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Sharaí "to hold talks on bilateral relations between the two sisterly states and events in the region."

Meantime, Lebanon has officially told the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan about the series of the Israeli violations to the Lebanese airspace, that took place in the period extending from October 9 to November 2nd.

An official statement issued by the Lebanese national information agency stressed that number of these violations exceed 52 and fell within 14 days.

The Israeli warplanes on October 31st violated the lebanese airspace for 10 times.